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Small Bore Rifle Tourney Ends Today; Etna Man Wins Waddell Trophy Saturday Medrord Rifle and Pistol club's annual spring small bore rifle tourney is scheduled to con clude today with scope sight firing on the day's program which was to be at 7 a. m. at the club range just west of Cra ter Lake highway Four Corners. The shoot opened yesterday with six iron sight events. Five actual firing matches were plan ned today. Matches In which aggregates of tussles are figured will brine to 15 the total of events. This is the first time since the OUT TO BREAK RECORDS The 33-car field roars Into the first turn as the historic 500-mile auto race gets underway at Indian apolis. Final standings at the end of the race were: Troy Huttman, first; Jim Rathman, sec ond; Sam Hanks, third; Duane Carter, fourth, and Art Cross, fifth. - Studs Tussle At Coquille Two clubs battling to get out of or keep out of the Southwest ern Oregon Baseball league cel lar contend In afternoon game today at Coquille. The teams are the Medford Cheney Studs, who up to last night had won one game in four tries, and Coquille, which up to then had not won its first league game. The two nines con tested last night In the opener of the two-fray series of the week-end. Rosier Loaded Coquille has loaded its roster since the start of the season to a greater extent than the Studs, picking up such players as Bob by Doerr, ex-Boston Red Sox second baseman; Alden Wilkie, pitcher with major and Coast league experience, and Dick Larner, chucker with Coast and Pioneer league background. The Studs will play here again next week-end, taking on Brook ings at the fairgrounds ball park. staffs Legion Baseball Tiffs Called Off There will be no American Legion junior baseball game at the fairgrounds today. Coach Alva Perkins of the Medford team reported. . Lakeview has forfeited the two games 11 was io play with Medford this afternoon, he said. A Lakeview official tele phoned Medford yesterday saying that the Lake county nine could not make the trip. Medford's next scheduled etion on its home diamond is a doubleblll with Klamath Falls on June 15. Perkins reported that plans re being made for games with Myrtle Creek, Eugene and Drain which are not In this district. Dead line on Classified Adi: 5:30 p.m. for following day; 10 a.m. Mon day; noon Saturday for Sunday .m. $230,100 Prize Melon Cut By 33 Indianapolis Racers Indianapolis, Ind. (U.R) The Indianapolis speedway split its' largest melon in history Sat urday night $230,100 as the payoff for the 36th annual 500-mile Memorial day auto race. Of that sum, Big Troy Rutt man of Lynwood, Calif., who Fresno Tops Seattle Nine Fresno, Calif. (U.R) The Fresno State Bulldogs nosed out Seattle university 2-1 Friday night to move a step closer to the NCAA district baseball championship. Righthander Larry Bolger al lowed only three hits and struck out 10. His Bulldog teammates rapped Ernie Pastornicky for seven blows. Outfielder Harvey Zenimura led the winners with three hits in five trips and fig ured in both runs. " Seattle tallied in the second when shortstop Johnny O'Brien tripled and came on in when Fibber Hirayama, Fresno center fielder, ran into the fence while chasing the ball. It was the first game in a two-of-three series. Sports Broadcasts Radio station KYJC will broadcast the Medford Che nay S t u d s Coquille Loggers baseball game from Coquille at 2 p.m. today. A TRIBUTE TO SHUT-INS A little girl who has been confined to her hospital bed for seven year looks listlessly out of tho window . and wonders what ANYBODY has to bo happy about. Multiply her case by many THOUSANDS, and you havo a quick picture of tho plight of this world's shut-Ins. These bed-Imprisoned men, woman and children dream of being like YOU: with strong, normal bodies, and the biassed privilege of walking under the skies. Doesn't your heart go out to thasa yearning unfortu- ' nates? Of course It does! Then do your sharo NOW . and God blest every ono of youl MEDFORD PHARMACY, Inc. 127 EAST SIXTH PHONE 2-6253 9 A.M. to 10:30 P.M. We Are Open Today We Salute Our Town! Sunday, June 1, 1951 won the 200-lap grind in record time, collected $61,743.18. That total included $38,018.18 from the speedway and the remaind er in accesory and other awards, Last year's total jackpot was 207,650 and winner Lee Wal- lard got a pay check worth $63,612.12. Speedway owner Antone Hul- man, Jr., doubled the guaran teed prize fund from $75,000 to $150,000 to make the giant jackpot possible. In addition, the management paid $5,500 in qualifying prizes and added $13,800 from the entry fees to boost the speedway's part of the record total to $169,300, Ruttman, at 22 years, the youngest and at 245 pounds the biggest of the 33 starters, would have eclipsed Willard's record purse had he picked up more lap prize money. Ruttman led for only 43 laps and got $100 for each lap while Wal lard picked up $15,900 in lap prize money. Jim Rathman of Chicago, runner-up in the 500, collected a total of $24,368.18; third-place Sam Hanks, Glendale, Calif., pocketed $14,768.18; Duane Carter, Culver City, Calif., the fourth finisher, $11,818.18, and Art Cross, Morristown, N. J., in fifth place and the top rook ie got $7,418.18." All 33 drivers shared in the prize kitty with Andy Linden of Los Angeles, who placed last, collecting $2,217.19. Hard-luck Bill Vukovlch of Fresno, Calif., who led 150 of the 200 laps, but careened into the wall while leading with only eight laps to go, got a pay check of $18,693.18 the third largest. Los Angeles Tops Seals by 8 to 6 San Francisco (U.R) Cat cher Les Peden's three-run ho mer in the seventh capped Los Angeles come-from-behind vic tory over San Francisco Sat urday as the Angels won 8-6, before 1,380 fans. Los Angeles, behind 3-0 in the fifth, got to Seal starter Bill Reeder for a pair of tal lies in that panel and for two more -in the sixth. The Angels never looked back again as Peden's four-master in the sev enth shot them farther ahead. Reeder, who started the sea son auspiciously by pitching a two-hitter opening night, re ceipted for his seventh straight lacing. Fred Baczewski, a tall, trim southpaw, was bothered by wildness but staggered the dis tance to pick up his first win of the season. Baczewski walked three men in the first inning, - forcing in one run and giving up another on Biu McCawley s tremend ous single to the left center field fence. McCawley lost cred it for an extra base when he and Joe Grace both wound up perched on second base. Peden's homer came off Matt Zidich, a relief pitcher who had replaced Reeder in the same frame. war that the spring tourney has been a two-day affair. George V. Hendricks, Etna, Calif., won the Waddell trophy for metalic sight aggregate at the Medford May Rifle tournament at the Medford Rifle club on Saturday. Hendricks led yesterday with 1,586 out of a possible 1,600 in the master shooters' class. Wil liam F. Schlitzkus, Springfield, Ore., had 1,581, and Lewis E. Brentlinger, Eugene, had 1,580 Leading the second class match was Charles Cunningham, Corvallis, with 1,569, and Guy Pool, Willows, Calif., was second with 1,568, Hugh M. Washburn, Klamath Falls, headed the sharpshootlng class with 1,567 while Orel E Lewis, Ft. Jones, Calif., carded a 1,557, In the marksman class, Steve K. Washburn, Klamath Falls, copped a 1,539, and Jean E. Pri vat, Springfield, garnered 1,523 Individual winners were Hend ricks for match 1 (50 yards), Match 2 at 50 meters and Match 5 at 100 yards; Adrian Land- berg won Match 3 (three posi tions 'nternational meter) and also Match 2 of the internation al aggregate with 652; and Betty Landberg, Willows, Calif., won Match 4. Thirty-five Oregon and Cali fornia shooters participated in Saturday's shoot. ' Sport Bulletin Prestwick, Scotland U,R) Harvie Ward, a 28-year-old ex-U. S. collegiate champ ion from Tarboro, N. C, ov ercame a case of first round putting jitters Saturday io crush veteran campaigner Frank Stranahan, 6 and 5, and win the British Amateur golf tournament by the second big gest margin in 18 years. MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Calumet Farms Entries One-Two In $28,950 Hollywood Feature ingiewooa, cam uj.kj me. lengths; a Gleam set Devils red and blue silks of famed Calumet farm flashed one-two Saturday as A Gleam and Two Lea finished first and second in the $28,950 Milady handicap at Hollywood park. And not only was the race for the top money between the two Calumet runners, but the jockeys were an entry, so to speak, as brothers Pete Morena was up on A Gleam and Henry Moreno on Two Lea. Spanish Cream was tired and her stable- mate, Special Touch, was fourth in the 11-horse field. In capturing the Milady handi cap by the two-and-a-h all Hollywood Takes PCL2i.il Place Hollywood j(U.R) The Holly wood Stars replaced Oakland in the number two spot of the Pa cific Coast league Saturday as they trounced the Acorns 8 to 0. In his second shutout and fourth consecutive win, Holly wood moundsman Pinky Woods went the distance to hold the Acorns to five hits. A severe cold has kept Woods on the sidelines since last May 18 when he shut out Portland 3 to 0. Oakland threatened only once. They loaded the sacks in the fifth inning with only one out, but Woods pulled himself out by snagging a grounder by Johnny Bero in time for a dou ble play. Carlos Bernter opened the at tack for the Twinks by slamming the second ball pitched in the contest for a 360 foot drive over the left field wall. FOR SALE SALES YARD LOCATED AT EL RANCHO MOTEL 1 Mil North of Ed Miles' Lbr. Co. OPEN EVENINGS and SUNDAYS PHONE 2-2988 TOURNEY AT OEARHART Gearhart (U.R) The Oregon Public Links Golf association will hold its annual 36-hole best ball tournament here Sunday. Bill Lees and Virgil Mitchell, both of Portland, will be on hand to defend their class A crown as will Class B titlehold ers Gordon Fleming and Earl Newton. FISHING BASS, TROUT Catfish, Crspplo, lueglll NO LICENSE NO LIMIT Bobs Twin Ponds 2Vi Ml. . Crater lake Hlwiy a tune Falls Kui PREFER PICKS SCHOOL Portland (U.R) Bob A 1 te n- hofen, Central Catholic's star basketball player, said Friday he plans to enroll next fall at Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind. The 18-year-old hoop ace was one of three players ever selected three years in a row to the all-state basketball team. PRISONER ESCAPES Salem (U.R) Warden Vir gil O'Malley said Saturday that Ernest Farrel, 41, a trusty at the state prison farm, escaped late Friday. Farrell had been serving a seven-year sentence from Lane county for forgery. a new track record of 1:21 35 for sev en furlongs, cutting a fifth of a second off the mark set in 1947 by Honeymoon. In the second half of the dou ble stakes program witnessed by 44,241 racing fans, King Ranch's Haunted scored her fourth straight victory in the $26,440 Cinderella stakes for two-year-old fillies. She defeated So Re gards by three lengths. : Calumet Farm entered a triple entry in the Milady, with Wist ful the third one of the - group. The Calumet group went off at three to five odds and returned $3.50, 2.90 and 2.20 for winning and placing, while the entry headed by Spanish Cream paid $3.60 to show. A Gleam, winner of the Prin ces Pat at Washington Park last year, earned $16,600 for her stable in winning the Milady while Two Lea got $5,000 for finishing second, making it profitable day for Calumet Farm. Haunted raced the five fur longs in :58 15 and paid $10.60, 4.60 and 3.40. It was the King Ranch filly's first stakes win. The victory was worth $17,050 to her own ers. Fleet Diver was Installed the favorite in the race but fin ished last in the field of eight. tit w cow?ce yov vSENSATIOiVAL FEATURES ! HUMPHREY MOTORS 33 SOUTH RIVERSIDE PHONE 2-5203 iVn l"-' l?-'--"'---""''-"' 1mm, COMPETING IN FIRST FOREIGN TOURNEY, Maureen Connolly, San Diego, Cal., gains semi-finals in Surrey grass-court tennis championships by deleaung Angela Morumer, lunjuay, jmib. o-i, 6-4. Steady game of U. 8. national champ paid off. fntemotionai; Fishermen, Landowners, Public Relations Said Better Along Deschutes Madras (U.R) Better public relations were noted Saturday between fishermen and landown ers in the Mecca and Gateway areas along the Deschutes river. No grass fires caused by ang lers have been reported to tho : Oregon State Game commission in the area. The fire danger in the canyon of the Deschutes re mains high because of tho pro longed dry weather. Cooperation Asked The commission is erecting signs asking the cooperation of fishermen in preventing fires, banning the use of firearms and controlling activities of dogs. 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